Dear Friends of AAC,
AAC has partnered with Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS)
bringing families together through adoption since our inception in 1994. Located in Seoul, South Korea, ESWS was
founded “to feed the hungry, to clothe the bare, and to help children in need
of warm and loving homes.” Through the
years, ESWS has seen many changes to Korean adoption, but none has been more
challenging than the repercussions from the enactment of Korea’s Special
Adoption Law of 2012.
The new adoption law, while intending to protect the rights
of children and birth mothers, has inadvertently created confusion and delays
in the adoption process both domestically and internationally. Korea has not allowed any children to leave
country for their adoption since August 2012.
A large portion of ESWS’s yearly budget goes directly to
costs related to foster care and food, clothing and medical needs of the
children. Childcare costs have risen
dramatically and their foster care system is stressed. ESWS currently oversees 350 children placed
in 250 foster homes in and around Seoul.
They also care for more than 60 infants in the baby hospital located at
their headquarters. These babies are
waiting for foster placement, but none is available. These babies are out-growing the cribs
originally built for younger infants.
For the children’s safety, ESWS needs to update their facility with new,
larger cribs.
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| The New Cribs |
So how can
we help? That's easy - through the financial support of people like you. As an
advocate for adoption, or an adoptive parent yourself, you understand the
important work that ESWS is doing! Would you help us support our friends
through this difficult time with a generous tax deductible donation?
With this donation, you will help finance desperately needed supplies and
medical care for the orphaned children in ESWS’s care.
A friend of AAC has offered to match funds for
the first $100,000.00 raised to benefit ESWS. Please help us match this substantial offer! We would love to meet this goal by June 1,
2013. You can donate by mailing your
check (made payable to AAC) to AAC, PO Box W, Berthoud CO 80513. You can also call in to AAC with a credit card (subject to 2% transaction fee) or even donate through the below Paypal!! Thank you in advance. We appreciate
your help!
Sincerely,
Marissa
Bebo
AAC
Executive Director
PS- If you’d like to help, but feel limited in
what you can send, even $10 will buy diapers for one child for a month! Please help in any way you can.
Donate now to the 2013 Orphan Care Campaign!
